Sentences with phrase «environmental justice groups»

Environmental justice groups argue that their communities have a lot at stake if cap and trade fails to curb climate change.

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The plan — pitched by former city traffic commissioner Sam Schwartz, transport workers unions and environmental justice groups as a means of more fairly spreading expenses — is intended to reduce traffic congestion and raise funds for the MTA.

Environmental justice group Sustainable South Bronx scored a public health award from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Have you talked to environmental justice groups like the Indigenous Environmental Network?

The state opted to use a cap - and - trade program to cut carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from refineries, factories, power plants and other facilities, an approach CBE and other environmental justice groups strongly oppose.

The letter, which was endorsed by national environmental organizations, local environmental justice groups, and indigenous rights organizations, describes several flaws with REDD offset credits.

We hosted a series of events in the San Francisco Bay Area, together with allies from Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador; the Indigenous Environmental Network; the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Against REDD and for Life; as well as California environmental justice groups who found common cause with these communities.

Outraged and angered local front - line communities and environmental justice groups get little media attention, and Gov. Jerry Brown continues his posture as a global climate leader.

«Rather than engaging with these communities,» wrote Rich Stolz and De'Sean Quinn of environmental justice group OneAmerica, «I - 732 organizers patronized and ignored concerns raised by these stakeholders.»

The march was organized into six broad contingencies with indigenous and environmental justice groups leading the way.

While Dorego and Small divorced in 2011, the maneuvers by Small's firm are likely to bolster claims by environmental justice groups that contend Glenwood was secretly bankrolling efforts to kill the waste removal program.

At 1 p.m., NY Renews, a coalition of community organizations, environmental justice groups, labor unions, faith groups, business leaders, and other advocates fighting for equitable climate policies, holds a telephone press conference to call on Cuomo to step up as a leader for communities hurt most by climate change.

EAST HARLEM — An environmental justice group charges Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito has abandoned asthmatic New Yorkers failing to support more stringent regulation against landlords.

Despite the findings of these studies and others, the EPA did not update emission factors for the U.S. refinery and petrochemical sector until 2015, seven years after Houston had petitioned the agency to do so and two years after it was sued by environmental justice groups.

About 1,500 mostly low - income households are within reach of the coal yard dust, said Shweta Narayan of Community Environmental Monitoring, an environmental justice group in India.

Opponents of the plant, including the City of Oxnard, environmental justice groups and clean energy advocates, want to see the CEC move ahead with its rejection so that stakeholders can get serious about developing alternatives.

The Peoples Climate Movement is made up of community organizations, environmental justice groups, individuals, and labor groups from across the country.

(He notes that a carbon fee, which would impose a cost on carbon emissions without the trading and is favored by some environmental justice groups, could lead to the same disparities.)

Grassroots and environmental justice groups are able to force the local permitting authority to extend the scoping comment period and to hold informational meetings in affected communities.

Environmental racism describes this unfortunate situation and refers to «the enactment of any policy or regulation that negatively affects the living conditions of low - income or minority communities at a rate disproportionate from affluent communities» (Environmental Justice Group.

Earthjustice represented three environmental justice groups and challenged the impact statement, which a lower court judge found illegal, whose opinion was upheld by a state court of appeal.